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7/18/14

Hope, any of you, dear readers, have already heard about Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). It is an amazing way of using technologies in the right way, something which is quite rare for human beings. And despite the fact that MOOCs are a recent development, there are a lot of mobile apps which provide an access to the courses. This post is supposed to be the first one in a series of reviews of such apps for two mobile operating systems which I extensively use: Android and iOS. And the hero today is an Android app called Grace.

11/19/11

Past week the Aakash tablet was launched officially. It's an Indian low cost (~$50) 7-inch Android 2 tablet. It was just launched at October, 5 but actually 100,000 of devices are already sold. The buyer is the Indian government. While the retail version with some additional functionality (inbuilt cellular modem and SIM to access internet) will cost about $60, the government subsidized version is just $35!

In Russia president just started to think of providing students with free Wi-Fi at the universities and the "educational" tablet will be $370 (at least, there is some rumor that the price will be twice as high). In India over 1000 institutes are already equipped with high bandwidth Wi-Fi networks (and free web enabled courses) and tablet is on sale at a give-away price. Incredible India and the good old Russia ...

10/7/11

I don't know whether your, dear reader, have your reading list or not, but I have. As for books in English I recommend you to use Shelfari which belongs to Amazon at present. But don't be afraid! This is not an advertising post about this service. :-)

9/16/11

The last time I've talked about LTO basics. In order to use such kind of optimization with GCC compilers you need to build them with LTO support. Starting from version 4.6 GCC compilers which supports LTO (C, C++, Fortran for sure) will be built with LTO support enabled by default. So you can try binary packages for your OS and quite likely compilers supports LTO.

9/15/11

Some time ago I came to the conclusion that it might be a good idea to write some posts in English. I'll start with a series of small notes on Link-Time Optimization. And the first post is obviously an introductory one.